ID
0379
Nationality
British
Occupation
Student
Summary
Partially deafened by meningitis at 4; educated at the Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf, then entered Charterhouse School, a hearing school. At age 17, completely deafened by a hit-and-run auto accident; nonetheless, managed to enter Oxford University. Autobiography, Sing a Song of Silence: A Deaf Girl's Odyssey (1983).
References
The Quiet Ear, p.55-57.
Dates
1963-